Originally Posted by DAL4EVER

Essential,

While I agree we have a long way to go to recapturing our lost retirement and payscales we did improvements with the LOAs. We will be the highest paid of the legacies, we don't have guys on furlough and each year we are adding to our 401ks. It doesn't mean we should be satisfied but we have and are making improvements that will hopefully be used as a solid baseline to build off in 2012.

I would rather be negotiating from a position of strength (hopefully the economy has improved by then and our synergies have fully been realized) than go for broke and achieve nothing. Look at UAL, CAL and AMR for how well that has worked for them.